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Gurgaon to try decentralised solutions for disposing waste

Source: The Hindu, Date: March , 2015

The millennium city
generates about 600 tonnes of municipal solid waste every day, which is handledin
the most conventional manner. The problem is compounded with no single
authority responsible for waste management of the city’s urban area. No
integrated solid waste management plan is in place and the burning down of the
only waste treatment plant in November 2013 has led to mountains of waste
piling up. Citizens’ groups had been advocating that in the impending crisis
lay an opportunity to decentralize waste management at housing/ward level. And
the Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon (MCG) under its new Commissioner Vikas
Gupta has finally decided to implement a decentralized MSW pilot project at two
locations.